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Sunny Shao
Education
PhD. Candidate, Political Science (Mass Behavior)
University of California
Riverside, CA
current - 2016
M.S., Public Policy in Economics
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA
2015 - 2013
Selected Positions
Researcher & Center Associate
Center for Social Innovation (UCR)
Riverside, CA
current - 2018
- Design survey and census outreach messaging experiments, and statistically analyze and present datasets using R and MongoDB to stakeholders
- Independently query, analyze and model both structured and unstructured datasets to measure disparity and social impacts
- Design and deployed interactive data visualization tools such as data dashboards and mapping tools using R, shiny, ArcGIS and AWS
Researcher
AAPI Data
Riverside, CA
current - 2017
- Work with local, state, and national organizations on over 130 data consulting projects
- Program Qualtrics experimental surveys with name-matching algorithms to determine ethnicity from voter files
- Create the infographic reporting workflow for survey projects using R and Python
Summer Fellow (Survey Design)
Education Pioneer
Los Angeles, CA
2016
- Worked closely with coordinators, principals and teachers on program evaluations
- Created stratified weighted sampling surveys to evaluate programs of Camino Nuevo charter school network
- Designed protocols and methodology for future program evaluations
Data Analyst Intern
SmartAnalyst
Gurgaon, India
2012
- Interviewed thoracic oncologists in Japan and China for pharmaceutical clients, who are on phase II trials of non-small cell lung cancer drugs
- Translated three-way phone meetings between client, SmartAnalyst and Chinese thoracic oncologists
- Crowdsourced a list of thoracic oncologists through medical journals
Selected Projects
Asian American Voter Survey (Experimental Design & Name-match algorithms)
AAPI Data, APIAVote & AAAJC
N/A
2020 - 2018
Experiment on Inland Empire Census 2020 Outreach Messages by Census Tracts
Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside
Riverside, CA
2020